So Not Happy
Jun. 12th, 2007 07:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeriendhalAnd for once it isn't about snail pacing on Andrea's Story (I got in at least 250 words today in between manic call volume at work). No, this is about our computer. We have, had rather, two. One experienced a meltdown after the pirated grey-market copy of Windows XP installed on it was heavily corrupted. So we've been reduced to one. Which given what a happy trio of Net junkies Tracy, I and Thomas are (he likes to watch train videos on YouTube. More frighteningly he knows how to pull up the site out of the Favorites tab.) has not been a fun experience.
So we bit the bullet and bought a legal copy of Windows. And in a fit of actual foresight (given that China Girl will probably share the family obsessions, whether or not she shares any genetics with us) we also ordered parts for a new rig so we can up our number of systems to three (or at least two if the dead computer proves unsalvagable.) We put the order in on Saturday, and even shipping via UPS Ground it came today. I found it waiting for me at home.
On the front stoop.
Where it had been sitting all afternoon.
During a thundershower.
I was painfully polite to the poor woman at the other end of NewEgg's customer service line. After all, it wasn't her fault that the UPS driver was a fracking idiot. But instead of getting our new computer assembled this week, I'm going to have to haul the unopened boxes to the nearest UPS shipping facility Thursday on my day off and send them back to be replaced.
Do you know how much I hate the smell of wet cardboard?
So we bit the bullet and bought a legal copy of Windows. And in a fit of actual foresight (given that China Girl will probably share the family obsessions, whether or not she shares any genetics with us) we also ordered parts for a new rig so we can up our number of systems to three (or at least two if the dead computer proves unsalvagable.) We put the order in on Saturday, and even shipping via UPS Ground it came today. I found it waiting for me at home.
On the front stoop.
Where it had been sitting all afternoon.
During a thundershower.
I was painfully polite to the poor woman at the other end of NewEgg's customer service line. After all, it wasn't her fault that the UPS driver was a fracking idiot. But instead of getting our new computer assembled this week, I'm going to have to haul the unopened boxes to the nearest UPS shipping facility Thursday on my day off and send them back to be replaced.
Do you know how much I hate the smell of wet cardboard?
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Date: 2007-06-13 12:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-13 12:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-13 01:13 am (UTC)Just tell me you aren't getting Vista, and all is well (since Vista is, well, crap). And I think it's fair to warn you against it. And depending on what chips you need, I have this dead machine that's just gathering dust in my room....
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Date: 2007-06-13 08:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-13 02:37 pm (UTC)He was wrong, btw :-D
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Date: 2007-06-13 02:12 am (UTC)